Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1907 — Page 3

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BY THE CENTRAL LOAN COMPANY He Borrows Forty Dollars and They Charged Over Sixty Dollars Interest, Then Had Him Arr e siedLoyd Judy, who lived here ten years ago, was arrested at Hartford City Thursday and taken to Peru, to answer a charge of obtaining money under false pretense. He is said to have mortgaged furniture, which did not belong to him. According to the Hartford City papers, Judy purchased furniture at the Lenhart store in Peur on the installment plan, and later went to the Central Loan company’s office and borrowed money, representing that there was no mortgage on the goods. He was advanced the loan, and shortly afterwards he had his family, of a wife and two children, moved to Hartford City, where he secured employment in a factory. Mrs. Judy explained the affair and said that the Peru parties misrepresented the facts in their statements. She declared that the furniture belonged to her husband, and that all he borrowed was S4O. This amount with Interest, she says, now made the demand of the Central Loan agency $lO2, showing the usurious rates which are paid for such loans. She says that the Peru company had opportunity to take the furniture on their chattel mortgage, as it belonged to her husband, but that instead, they were causing this unnecessary trouble. She said that his father, living at Pittsburg, had been notified and had wired that he was now on his way to Peru to pay the entire amount demanded, and secure his son’s release. According to her version there were no grounds for the charge against her husband. o HARRY HAY PINCHED AGAIN. And Manager Frazee Goes to His Rescue. Underhanded Harry Hay, who came here Friday with the Dunkirk base ball club, was to be pinched at the close of Friday’s game by marshal Worley,' for his failure to settle a board bill with Landlord Wright, of the New Hartford hotel. The bill is for $6 and is of long standing. For fear that Hay’s arrest would interfere with the game, Mr. Wright was persuaded to take no steps until the game had been played. Hay was arrested at Decatur a short time ago on a similar charge. Manager Frazee settled the bill that gfil flinger might accompany the team** home. — Hartford City News. Harry seems to have a habit of overlooking these little accounts and this and his other peculiar traits is what no doubt keep him out of faster company. —.—;—l —:—o George Thomas is home from an extended tour through Arkansas and Missouri, where he viewed the land with the intention of locating. George was very much impressed with the land, and expects to return to Arkansas in a short time and make that place his future home.

BOARD OF PARDONS IN SESSION Considered Many Cases —How the Prisoner Secures His Release \ from Penit e ntiary. The board of pardons at the Michigan City prison, considered a large number of cases at its July meeting. The members are each furnished with a brief biography of the convicts neatly typewritten. Each one goes by number. The age, former prison record of the convicts, if they have any, what they are sent up for and the length of time they are to serve under the indeterminate law and the class to which they belong and marks of credit are set down with other data. The information is so complete that members of the board can tell at a glance when number so and so appears before them whether he is entitled to a parole. There are 1,028 prisoners at Michigan City penitentiary and out of the entire number but one is in stripes. This is the third and lowest class. There are twenty-two in the second and about 1,000 of them in the first class. Those in class A are garbed in blue suits in order to add as little stigma as possible to their enforced confinement. Whenever a prisoner has served his minimum sentence he comes before the board at its next meeting and his case is considered. If his prison record is good and it is his first offense he is usually paroled, provided a place fbr him to work in can be secured. If, as frequently happens, he is a born criminal, his record shows that he is. There are many cases where the record of a prisoner of this class discloses that he has been in one prison and out, in another and out, a half dozen times before he is forty. Such convicts are given little consideration. There is no use to parole such a prisoner, for he will commit another crime as surely as he is turned out. There are many prisoners who belong to the class of criminally insane, who never appear before the board. There is no use, for the board could not parole them if the members so desired. Prisonrs who are paroled must have work to do before they are released. The employer of such a person must report once a month what the parole man is doing and what his habits are. If the paroled man gets in bad ways and criminal company the warden at Michigan City penitentiary is soon in possession of this knowledge. If he so far forgets the condition of his parole as to break the law again or to show such positive signs that he is going to, he is taken back to prison. His chances then for release on parole are materially lessened. Prisoners are not allowed to talk and if caught they get a mark of discredit. When three black marks are against a prisoner he is reduced to the next lower class. If he still refuses to be good and gets other marks he finally is reduced to stripes. THE OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Will Meet August Sixth to Select the Board Who Will Control This Old Institution. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Old Adams County bank one of the oldest and foremost banking institutions in the state, will be held on August the sixth in this city at which time the stockholders will be called upon to elect seven men to constitute a board of directors. Following a long established custom, the stockholders are called together every year, at which time a board is chosen and other matters of interest are taken up and discussed. Who the members of the new board will be no one is able to state, as each stockholder Iff entitled to cast their vote according to the amount of stock they own. The old board has rendered the bank valuable services and it would not be surprising if the entire old board would be re-elected. This bank is considered one of the best and strongest in the state, and it is safe to say that the selections made will meet with the approval of all. The annual meeting however, always causes a ripple of interest. o J. H. Fronefield was arrested last evening at the instance of Dr. H. S. Ainsworth, County Humane Officer, for permitting an old horse, with sore shoulders, to be worked on his farm, in Union township. The defendant pleaded not guilty and the hearing was set for next Wednesday. Ihe matter was adjusted today, however, by the defendant pleading guilty and the prosecution consenting to the levying of the lowest possible fine under the law, the sum of five dollars. —Van Wert Bulletin. This is a brother of our Billy. — O'- ■ Try a Democrat "Want Ad.”

MRS. J. T. MERRYMAN A HOSTESS Mr. Weaver, of Auburn, a Guest of .'Honor at a Happy Evening Party at the Dugan Home. Mr. Chalmer Weaver, of Auburn, Ind., was the complimentary guest at a small informal evening party Friday night given by Miss Frances Dugan, at her home on Monroe street, to a company of twenty young people. Several contest prevailed during the evening amusements, besides dancing and music. Dainty and delicious refreshments were served the guests. Mrs. J. T. Merryman gave a delightful party Friday afternoon from two until six o’clock in honor of her daughter, Mrs. June Quinn. The ladies were invited to take their sewing and enjoy the afternoon. At six o’clock small tables were prettily placed on the lawn and a three-, course luncheon was served. During the luncheon period, sunflower fans were given the guests as favors. The ladies who enjoyed the hospitality of the hostess were: Mesdames Roy Archbold, Earl Adams, C. C. Schafer, Fanny Cole, Blanch Hoffman, of Preble; Geo. Flanders, C. D. Lewton, Misses Nina Case, of Magley; Elizabeth Peterson. A birthday dinner which occurred Friday noon at twelve o’clock was the one given by Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Mills in compliment to their little son, Robert, and Godfrey Bell, of Chicago, whose birthdays both were The dinner was betautifully served in courses at twelve o’clock by the hostess to the following guests: Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Steele, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Everett, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Mann, Miss Mae Parrish, Messrs Godfrey Bell, Ross Mills. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Ray on Friday evening occurred a delightful birthday party on Miss Ivy Ray, this being her 14th birthday. A delicious luncheon was served to which all did ample justice. Those present were: Goldie Biggs, Mabie Harb, Cora Burk, Agnes Eady, Esther Schrank, Alma and Fred Kooken, Frances and Grace Butler, Cecil and Cecia Andrews, Gertrude Ray. o WANT POSTOFFICE RE INSTATED Curryville Citizens Say Rural Route Service is Unsatisfactory. The citizens of Curryville, whose postoffice was discontinued the first of July, expect to have it re-instated and with that end in view have forwarded a petition to the postoffice signed by forty patrons of the office. In the meantime they are refusing .to receive their mail off the rural routes, two of which pass near or through the place, but take turns in walking to Craigvllle, a mile distant and securing the mail from the Cralgville office. They say that the rural route service, at their place has proven very unsatisfactory, especially in bad weather and that as they are directly on the railroad, they believe the department will give them back their office’. ________o JOHNSON INSULTED WRONG ONE And She Proceeded to Clean Him Up About Right Tom Johnson, a junk dealer from Willshire, received an unmerciful beating Friday afternoon. Tom had been in Decatur and started home and when near Pleasant Mills, came up with another junk dealer’s wagon. The owner had gone into a house to buy some junk and his wife was holding the horses when Tom came up and became abusive. The woman leaped from the rig and soon had Johnson taking the count. She* knocked him down a half dozen times and then her husband appeared on the scene and put on the finishing touches. Parties who saw the “go” say it was one sided, but interesting. o Members of the local lodge of Elks are looking forward with great interest to the ceremonies of breaking ground for their new home at Berry street and Maiden Lane, which will take place this evening. The Elks will meet at the lodge rooms at 9:30 and repair to the site of the home. After the exercises there they will return to the club rooms for a social session.—Journal-Gazette. Saddlery dealers from all sections of Indiana will meet in Ft. Wayne Tuesday for the purpose of strengthening their state association. The meetings wil be held in the assembly room of the court house and while no set program has been arranged, it is understood that the local dealers will meet in the morning and the state dealers Jn the afternoon. A number of matters ;of great importance to the trade will come up for consideration and it is expected that the gathering will be largely attended. —Journal-Ga-zette.

RECENT PUBLIC LAND DECISION A Lady Employee for the Government Receives the Fancy Salary of Two Thousand Dollars. Washington, July 13. —For years Americans and others have been sending to the United States from foreign countries postal cards and post cards (private mailing cards) with messages written on the front as well as on the back of the cards, although in this country this advantage has been denied the users of government postal cards. Some months ago the United States postal laws and regualtlons were amended so as to give that privilege to buyers of post cards, but such concession was not made applicable to postal cards. In order to remedy this inconsistency and to prevent any further confusion and annoyance to the public, Postmaster-General Mayer today promulgated an order, effective August 1, 1907, providing that the face side of a postal card may be divided by a vertical line placed approximatedly one-third of the distance from the left end of the card; the space at the left of the line to be used for a message, etc., the space to the right to be used for the address only. Washington, July 13. —The Interior Department is receiving a flood of inquiries regarding the effect of a recent decision of the department relative to the rights of school teachers in the matter of taking up public lands under the homestead law. The decision was rendered in a contest made against the entry of a woman teacher employed in Minnesota, and, while it was shown that she had lived on the land only during her vacation, covering only about fourteen weeks, for each year of the four years she had held it, the department failed to sustain the contestant. Washington, July 13.—Miss Henrietta M. Kelley, who is employed in the office of the director of the mint here, has been promoted, and hereafter will receive a salary of $2,000 per annum. This is the first time a government employee of the opposite sex has achieved such a dazzling height. It was given to Miss Kelly by Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou, solely because her work entitled her to the salary. Miss Kelly has been receiving $1,600 per annum. She is the kind of girl that sticks to her desk, attends to business and is obliging always. o AFTER SOME MONTHS’ ILLNESS A Well Known Lady, Whose Death Has Caused Sorrow Among a Large Circle of Friends. Mrs. Frank Edington, a well known lady, died Friday afternoon at her home on Third street at two o’clock, after an Illness dating back several months, death resulting from tuberculosis. She was the edest daughter of Mrs. Philip Kern, who resides on a farm east of our city and was bom and reared in this county and it was here that she received her erly training and education. She was a graduate of the Decatur public schools, and was considered among the leaders of her class, being a careful and industrious student. She was united in marriage several years ago to Frank Edington, and since that time had made their home in this city. Mrs. Edington was thirty-three years of age. Although ailing for several years, her Illness assumed no dangerous stage until last fall, when she took a sudden turn for the worse ,and from that time until her demise, her decline was gradual. The funeral services were held Sunday morning at ten thirty o’clock at the Evangelical church, Rev. A. B. Haist, officiating, and Interment will be made in the Decatur cemetery. o A Certain Cure for Aching Feet. Shake into your shoes Allen’s FootEase, a powder. It cures Tired, Aching, Callous, Sweating, Swollen feet. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Sample FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. T. 12-4 t v

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WILL DISMISS MORTGAGE CASE Joint Session of Jay and Adams County Commissioners and a Bond Sale Scheduled for TomorrowA marriage ‘Mneirgfe was Issued to John W. Mankey, aged twenty-three, and Clara L. Borne, aged twenty-three, of Kirkland township. In the case of David D. Clark and John Baker vs. Emily and Joseph Johnson, to foreclose a mortgage, a written motion to dismiss has been filed and will no doubt be acted upon at the September term of court John F. Kaeser, of Berne, and Samuel E. Shepherd, of Monroe, have been gratned resident licenses to hunt game at proper seasons in Adams county. o ANOTHER BASE BALL LEAGUE This Story Comes from Portland— Probably Nothing Doing. There is again talk of organizing a small Independent league in this part of the country. The object of the organization would be to promote interest among the fans of the different towns and to create more of a feeling of competition among the teams. It is thought that it would also prevent, to a certain extent the taking of players by managers from other teams. The schedule would call for six games by each team per week, leaving one day per week for them to play teams not in the league. The teams considered are Decatur, Van Wert, Bluffton, Richmond, Portland, and either Hartford City* or Dunkirk. There will be a meeting held next week to perfect plans, the meeting probably being held here. Sporting Editor Kling, of the Indianapolis Star, has signified his willingness to act as president of the organization without compensation, which would be satisfactory to those Interested in the financial end of the proposition. The whole thing may fall through, just as the one did that was talked of in the spring, but the move seems to be meeting with some favor at this time. —Portland Commercial Review. ————■—-o "TO KEEP WELL The whole year through,” writes L. A. Bartlett, of Rural Route 1, Guilford, Me., I and my family use Dr. King’s New Life Pills. They have proven most satisfactory to all of us.” They tone the system and cure biliousness, malaria and constipation. Guaranteed at Blackburn drug store. 25c. - O' Wise Counsel From the South “I want to give some valuable advice to those who suffer with lame back and kidney trouble,” says J. R. Blankenship, of Beck, Tenn. “I have proved to an absolute certainty that Electric Bitters will positively cure this distressing condition. The first bottle gave me great relief and after taking a few more bottles, I was completely cured; so completely that it becomes a pleasure to recommend this great remedy.” Sold under guaro CURED OF LUNG TROUBLE. “It is now eleven years since I had a narrow escape from consumption,” writes C. O. Floyd, a leading business man of Kershaw, S. C. “I had run down in weight to 135 pounds, and coughing was constant, both by day and by night. Finally I began taking Dr. King’s New Discovery, and continued this for about six months, when my cough and lung trouble were entirely gone and I was restored to my normal weight, 170 pounds.” Thousands of persons are healed every year. Guaranteed at Blackburn drug store. 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle antee at Blackburn drug store. Price 50c.

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